2020 TCEP Board of Directors Nominee
1. Please provide us with your Medical School and graduation date. Also include your current positions held with a brief description of your duties. I am a second year MD/MPH student at UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine graduating in 2022. Since February 2019, I have served as the Organized Medicine Chair for our Emergency Medicine Interest Group. In this role, I attended and organized our student attendance at TCEP 2019, ACEP 2019, and the 2019 TX Women in EM Leadership Conference. Through this position, I also served as the UT Health San Antonio delegate on TCEP’s Medical Student Committee monthly phone meetings. Through this role, I also served as the San Antonio City Chair for Lone Star Survival, a growing student-led tourniquet training initiative, where I oversaw five training sites in San Antonio last October. In addition to our EM Interest Group, I also serve as the VP for our Ultrasound Interest Group. With a few of my peers, I pursued additional Ultrasound training with our EM faculty so that we could represent our school for the first time at the World Congress of Ultrasound student competition in Irvine, CA last September. In this role, I also initiated, designed, and executed the first annual Texas medical student Ultrasound competition where Baylor, McGovern, Dell, UIW, at UTHSA were represented. 2. Tell us about your involvement in TCEP. Last year, I attended the medical student events at TCEP in Austin and ACEP in Denver. Both of these experiences offered me tremendous insight into the road ahead in applying into EM. I also served this year on the Medical Student Committee of TCEP, representing UT Health San Antonio and learning a lot about advocacy and health policy as it pertains to EM. In January 2020, I attended the quarterly TCEP Board of Directors meeting to better understand the role of the medical student on the board. 3. Convey to us your goals as a Director and what you see as the pressing issues facing Emergency Physicians in the next three years. As the medical student on the board, I would be a respectful, curious, and energetic team member. I would keep in close contact with my peers from all schools across Texas so that I could best represent the voice of medical students pursuing Emergency Medicine in 2020. I would be quick to help any other Member of the Board in their duties. Some of the pressing issues facing EM physicians ahead include: managing an ever-increasing patient load without overcrowding or dangerous wait times, incorporating an increasing number of EM graduates into the work force, assessing the role of telemedicine in low-resource Emergency Departments, and advocating for increased resources to appropriately manage patients with mental health concerns. 4. Please provide a brief description of family, community and professional activities, and hobbies. I grew up between blue-collar and white-collar worlds, my dad a cattle-raiser in East Texas and my mom a telecommunications exec in Dallas. I attended The Hockaday School in Dallas for 12 years before attending Southern Methodist University where I graduated in 2016. For hobbies, I enjoy cooking new meals, finding live music, hanging out with my 3-year-old neice and 2-year old-nephew. I travel any chance that I get and am looking forward to an upcoming trip to Peru after Step 1. I have practiced yoga for 9 years and recently picked up indoor rock climbing which has been a lot of fun too. |
